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National Stress Øut Week Highlights Stress Management in the Workplace

Silver Spring, Md.

Publication Date

2011-11-01T20:00:00

With the unemployment rate in the United States hovering around 9 percent, it’s a stressful time for many. Those who are unemployed are feeling anxious and stressed as they search for work in a struggling market. But many with jobs are feeling the stress as well. The pressure to keep a job, in addition to everyday work-related stress, can take a total on mental health.

An ADAA-sponsored national survey found that 72 percent of people who experience daily stress and anxiety say it interferes with their lives at least moderately. Additionally, 30 percent with daily stress have taken prescription medication to manage stress, nervousness, emotional problems or lack of sleep, and 28 percent have had an anxiety or panic attack. The findings (collected in 2006) support what is already widely recognized: Americans experience stress and anxiety daily, at work and at home.

The Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA) is the leading national nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing awareness and improving the diagnosis, treatment, and cure of anxiety disorders. ADAA offers free educational information and resources about anxiety disorders, local treatment providers, self-help groups, self-tests, clinical trials, and more. ADAA promotes the message that anxiety disorders are real, serious, and treatable.

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Founded in 1979, ADAA is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and cure of anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, and co-occurring disorders through education, practice, and research.